BIB_ID
268390
Accession number
MA 6422
Creator
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.
Display Date
1841 July 24.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2007.
Description
1 item (10 p.) ; 17.6 cm. + with envelope
Notes
With an ink blot at the top of the first page, marked with a note: "Those who receive letters from careless people must expect to have them blotted."
Summary
Explaining that he has not written sooner because he has been consumed with the composition of "a book I am making haste to finish" [A System of Logic]; saying "As for me I should by this time have been as dry as a botanical specimen[,] every drop of moisture in my composition having been absorbed by the driest logic & metaphysics" if it had not been for the elections to remind him that "one is walking about among individual human beings & not among Universal Affirmative or Negative Propositions"; discussing Whigs and Tories, saying, "for my part I believe Opposition is the natural position for liberalism, & that, except for short periods, it never thrives well anywhere else"; with mention of the Carlyles.
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